DreamWorks Animation all-stars Shrek, Puss in Boots, Boss Child, Hiccup, and a complete bunch of Trolls are getting the Mario Kart remedy for a brand new recreation: DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing. The crossover kart racer will span 20 years of the DreamWorks cinematic catalog, borrowing characters from the Shrek and Find out how to Practice Your Dragon movies, in addition to Megamind and The Unhealthy Guys.
DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing seems to boost the kart-racing style with a couple of twists: Magical switches on race programs will be struck to uncover hidden shortcuts, and DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls will trip together with racers and are geared up with power-ups and “particular surprises,” in response to writer GameMill Leisure.
The prolonged Shrek household is strongly represented in DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing; the eponymous ogre, his ogre spouse Fiona, Donkey, and Puss in Boots are all playable racers. Wolf from Puss In Boots: The Final Want can also be playable, however one in every of two characters unique to a digital deluxe model of the sport (the opposite is Grasp Oogway from Kung Fu Panda). Every character could have their very own kart — Shrek’s seems all swampy, Fiona’s is onion-inspired, and Donkey’s is modeled after the mom of his youngsters — that may be upgraded with cosmetics and different customizations.
Different confirmed racers embody Po, Tigress, and Grasp Shifu from Kung Fu Panda; Astrid from Find out how to Practice Your Dragon; Megamind; and Mr. Wolf from The Unhealthy Guys. GameMill guarantees 20 fan-favorite characters and a wide range of tracks primarily based on areas from DreamWorks films.
This isn’t DreamWorks’ first foray into kart racing by a protracted shot. DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing stands on the shoulders of 2006’s Shrek Smash n’ Crash Racing, 2009’s Madagascar Kartz, and 2011’s DreamWorks Tremendous Star Kartz, all of which featured a raceable Shrek.
DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing is heading to Nintendo Swap, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X. It’s going to value $39.99 (or $49.99 for the aforementioned digital deluxe model). The sport options 8-player on-line races and 4-player native split-screen multiplayer.
Along with DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing, DreamWorks’ Trolls are coming to a separate recreation as properly, DreamWorks Trolls Remix Rescue. Developed by Petit Fabrik, Trolls Remix Rescue is a 3D platformer that duties gamers with saving the Trolls Kingdom from “a melodic mastermind who’s making an attempt to change the Trolls’ musical concord endlessly,” GameMill mentioned in an announcement.
The Trolls’ new platformer will star the likes of Poppy, Department, and Man Diamond, however gamers will be capable of create their very own customized Troll as properly. Gamers can their Troll’s hair forwards and backwards utilizing “Hair-Jitsu” — apparently a complicated Trolls martial artwork that additionally grants the flexibility to fly like a helicopter, seize and smash objects, and principally do anything an action-platformer requires.
DreamWorks Trolls Remix Rescue can also be heading to Nintendo Swap, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X. It’s additionally “coming quickly” and can value $49.99. Right here’s a have a look at the sport, which has some colourful Sackboy: A Large Journey vibes.